How to correctly work with mailing lists? [closed]

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Mailing lists are preffered communication channel for many open source products. But what is the best ways to interact with mailing lists? Currently i just receive a digest 2-3 times a day to my gmail account. This is not very g开发者_如何学Cood since i can't see tree-view structure of discussion and can't answer specific discussion branches. Alse, it's hard to maintain any notifications. For example, python mailing list emerges over 100 messages per day that are all packed into a few digest. If i'm interested only in 1-2 discussions taking place, it's no way for me to be notified about new messages in this discussions - i need to manually check every digest / e-mail and guess who answers what message and what is a discussion structure.

Maybe it's some desktop / web apps exists that allows to work with mailing list as with a standard tree-iew forum structure with notifications etc? Or is it some arcane methodology that provides an easy way to work with them? I feel myself terribly ineffictive with mailing lists right now :(

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Fixing your problem in three easy steps:

• Set up the mail-filtering capabilities of your mail client to store mail from each list to a separate folder. You could also use something like procmail on Unix-like systems.

• Use the threading feature of your mail client so that you can follow discussions.

• Set up your mailing list subscriptions, so that you receive individual messages, rather than digests. Digests are quite harder for you (and your mail client) to handle. They also frustrate us when you reply to the digest, rather than the individual message, thus breaking the threading in our mail clients.